You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

If you can't do it with feeling - don't.

Oh, I just sing like I hurt inside.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Love the quest marriage the conquest divorce the inquest.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.

Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.